Roadmap

What’s New - v1.126

• Standardized the CGS Card Game Specification with FinolDigital.Cgs.Json and cgs.json

Sprint - Priority 1

• Bug-Fix: If a player that isn’t host in a multiplayer room draws cards too quickly it can bug out and some of the cards vanish without showing in hand
• Bugs: https://github.com/finol-digital/Card-Game-Simulator/issues
• Deck Editor: Options for Deck File Format
• Integration: Associate native app with cgs.gg
• Platforms: Multi-player and Developer Mode on Web
• Cards: Animated highlight
  • https://github.com/PandaArcade/UIOutline/?tab=readme-ov-file
  • https://discussions.unity.com/t/pulsating-glow-effect-on-ui-button/148020
  • https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@2.0/manual/HOWTO-ShaderGraph.html
  • https://codesandbox.io/p/sandbox/css-animated-borders-lndvrx?file=%2Fsrc%2Fstyles.css&from-embed
• Cards: Select left and right on zoom in Cards Explorer
• Game-Play: Enhanced Drawer Buttons (Drop-down target for Deal and current for Hand)
• Game-Play: Move card to zone, stack, or drawer (E)
• Game-Play: Animation for card and stack actions
• Game-Play: Special action buttons (i.e. button to reset rotation for all cards, button to turn all cards faceup, etc.)
• Game-Play: Apply permissions for each other’s decks/stacks/cards, shuffling, moving, deleting, viewing facedown, etc
• Game-Play: Allow players to reveal/show hands to each other
• Game-Play: Label which player is interacting with cards/playables
• Game-Play: Name-Plates indicating player seats
• CardGameDef: Support mix of different card sizes in the same game
• CardGameDef: Support rotation in deckPositions
• CardGameDef: Set increments for Game-Play Points-Counter (gamePlayPointsIncrement)
• Platforms: Setup gamepad and keyboard shortcuts/hotkeys for Game-Play and Settings
• Platforms: Display gamepad and keyboard shortcuts/hotkeys in-app
• Platforms: Full controller support (Steam)

Backlog - Priority 2

• Integration: Private Lobbies & Deep links to join multiplayer rooms (cgs.link)
• Game-Play: Display values on Card in Play Area
• Game-Play: Counter system for players and cards (Dice grouping/parenting)
• Game-Play: Support multiple card selection
• Game-Play: Cut/Copy/Paste Cards
• Game-Play: Undo with Ctrl-Z
• Game-Play: Save/Load Sessions + Log of all (Player) actions
• Deck-Editor: Save with Ctrl-S
• Game-Play: Custom Tokens
• Game-Play: Flip Random for tokens
• Game-Play: Rename Stacks
• Game-Play: Add restart button in Play Settings Menu
• Cards: Search backs in Card Search/Filter Menu
• Decks: Support organizing decks into folders
  • Decouple games and decks, so you can use any deck from any game and deleting a game won’t delete your decks
• Decks: Add extra tags (*CMDR* for .txt; sideboards for .dec and .ydk)
• Decks: Show error(s) when a card is not found
• Decks: Group cards in Deck Editor
  • Option for card count limits, i.e. 3 copies per deck
  • Option to have a hard deck size limit applied, as well as for extras, I.e. 50 card main deck, 5 card extra deck
• Game-Play: Support multiple playmats
• Platforms: Android widgets
• Accessibility: Add audio and sounds throughout the app
• Accessibility: Wiki-page for Playing a Game
• Accessibility: Tutorial Video for How-To-Play
  • 0:00 Intro (Name/Website)
  • 0:00 Playing Solo (Single-player/Goldfishing)
  • 0:00 Playing Online (Multi-player)
  • 0:00 Playing Custom Games
  • 0:00 Editing Decks
  • 0:00 Browsing Cards
  • 0:00 Settings/Contact
  • CGS Website: https://www.cardgamesimulator.com/
• Accessibility: Tutorial Video for How-To-Create-And-Share
• Games: Ability to re-skin CGS per game, changing the look of the buttons, background, scroll bar, etc

Icebox - Priority 3

• Integration: Json Schema Generation via https://github.com/json-everything/json-everything and https://github.com/coveooss/json-schema-for-humans
• Cards Explorer & Deck Editor: Add sorting + Sort Menu
• Cards: Apply autoUpdate to cached images
• Cards: Set card image cache limit
• Cards: Allow pre-fetching of card images
• Cards: Support .svg images
• Cards: Support default search filters
• Cards: Support default sort
• Cards Explorer: Search Results View Options
  • Text-only
  • Small Image
  • Large Image
• Deck Editor: Organize cards by category when saving
• Game-Play: Automatically roll dice on phone shake
• Integration: Support multiple languages (Spanish, Chinese, etc)
• Integration: NanDeck + Squib + Magic Set Editor
• Integration: Create tool to automatically convert games/decks to/from OCTGN/LackeyCCG/Cockatrice
• Only to be pursued if all other goals have been completed: Support game-specific rules enforcement